A Time for Healing

Name: A Time for Healing
Price: $43.95 USD
Author: David E. Morgan PhD
ISBN: 9781477268704

Dysfunctional Families: How They Mismanage to Get That Way, and What We Can Do to Break the Cycle of Abuse

by David E. Morgan PhD

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Book Details

Language : English

Publication Date : 1/30/2013

Format : Softcover

Dimensions : 8.25x11

Page Count : 910

ISBN : 9781477268704

Format : E-Book

Dimensions : N/A

Page Count : 910

ISBN : 9781477268698

About the Book

Today, in real families, only a very small portion of the population comes from nurturing and supportive homes; most individuals have been products of dysfunctional families instead. In A Time for Healing, author Dr. David E. Morgan provides a study of a dysfunctional family and presents principles necessary for sustaining a healthy family unit.
Through the interplay of the fictional, four-generation Gardner family, A Time for Healing illustrates some events that can cause a family to be dysfunctional, reveals the carnage left from the pain, and discusses how to eradicate it. The Gardners’ story shows how unhealthy family rules of behavior are passed down from parents to children and what a devastating effect this process has on families, relationships, organizational lives, and society. With ideas gleaned from more than forty years as an educator in the Chicago public schools, including both part-time and full time in higher education, Morgan shows how we can envision and create a better way forward and avoid the imperfections of family dysfunction in the future.
A Time for Healing offers help for reclaiming the family by creating real, effective positive change. Cleaning up the family is about character, communication, forgiveness, healing, integrity, love, redemption, respect, understanding and the ownership of our acts.

About the Author

David E. Morgan, Phd, worked a combined total of more than forty years as an educator in various positions in the Chicago public schools and as full-time professor in Educational Leadership. Now retired, he writes, teaches part-time at area colleges and universities, and serves on a school board in a Chicago south suburban community. Morgan is married and has three adult children.

Customer Reviews

"Review of A Time For Healing
Among the twelve Gardner member there were two parents and ten youth. Among Gardner family's siblings of the inner circle (Eve, Matthew, and Peter), and the outer circle (Miriam, Paul, Elizabeth, Martha, Luke, John, and Mary), there were many copies bur few originals.
Between spring 1962 and fall 2005, over forty years later in a family milestone, both the two parents (Matthew Sr. and Lillian) and one sibling (Miriam) were deceased. But in the family's culture and relationships not much had changed. By fall 2005 the family's picture of the way things were by 1962 had been frozen in time. Within the Gardner family, by 1962, there two living parents and ten young lives with futures. These made a total of twelve. All of them deserved more than family apartheid. So justice too long delayed was justice denied. In this story, the number twelve is a symbol of faith, the church, and divine rule, according to scholar and theologians.
Our family is to be loved, cherished, valued, and protected. But it should never be abused, devalued, falsely accused, left unsafe, and disrespected. Today, we can no longer afford to devalue that which is valuable and value that which is worthless and destructive to our future, human welfare, success, and future happiness.
Nothing is more important about a family than its vision and culture. No one occupies a more influential position from which to influence a family's vision and culture than the two parents. Every successful leader knows that vision and culture are everything. A family and society's vision and culture is a dream in action. It captures the goals, objectives, principle centered values, inspiration, ambition, realism, creativity, clarity, consistency and standards that determines our destination.
A Time For Healing constitutes a social-political history of a family as well as a nation told through the finely drawn portraits of the twelve Gardner Family characters wh

David Morgan
"Review of A Time For Healing
Among the twelve Gardner member there were two parents and ten youth. Among Gardner family's siblings of the inner circle (Eve, Matthew, and Peter), and the outer circle (Miriam, Paul, Elizabeth, Martha, Luke, John, and Mary), there were many copies bur few originals.
Between spring 1962 and fall 2005, over forty years later in a family milestone, both the two parents (Matthew Sr. and Lillian) and one sibling (Miriam) were deceased. But in the family's culture and relationships not much had changed. By fall 2005 the family's picture of the way things were by 1962 had been frozen in time. Within the Gardner family, by 1962, there two living parents and ten young lives with futures. These made a total of twelve. All of them deserved more than family apartheid. So justice too long delayed was justice denied. In this story, the number twelve is a symbol of faith, the church, and divine rule, according to scholar and theologians.
Our family is to be loved, cherished, valued, and protected. But it should never be abused, devalued, falsely accused, left unsafe, and disrespected. Today, we can no longer afford to devalue that which is valuable and value that which is worthless and destructive to our future, human welfare, success, and future happiness.
Nothing is more important about a family than its vision and culture. No one occupies a more influential position from which to influence a family's vision and culture than the two parents. Every successful leader knows that vision and culture are everything. A family and society's vision and culture is a dream in action. It captures the goals, objectives, principle centered values, inspiration, ambition, realism, creativity, clarity, consistency and standards that determines our destination.
A Time For Healing constitutes a social-political history of a family as well as a nation told through the finely drawn portraits of the twelve Gardner Family characters who p

David Morgan

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